There's plastic in our drinking water and food.

Approximately 83% of drinking water tested throughout the World contains plastic particles and it is estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. We're crowd funding to change that, can you help? Scroll down...

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What’s the idea?

Operating as a non-profit, We want to collect mixed, contaminated plastic waste usually sent to landfill – or worse the ocean – and recycle it into a usable material. Through multiple trials we’ve managed to create a very durable, hard material that can be used for a variety of purposes but we need your help turning our research into reality.

Why? Because nobody wants to consume plastic in their diet and if we don’t do something now we’ll end up in an irreversible, unimaginable situation.

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Where the money raised will go;

What will the end result be;

The average 40 yard waste container holds up to 4.5 tonnes of mixed waste.We estimate a “plastics only” dedicated waste container will hold closer to 2 tonnes of waste.Assuming 20 local businesses request two uplifts per month we will make 40 collects totaling 80 tonnes.

Per year that’s 960 tonnes of plastic from 1 operation!

Frequently Asked Questions

Our business model is simple; accept plastic waste cheaper than it would be to send it to landfill and turn it into usable lengths that are sold for cheaper than current alternatives, like timber or metal. The profit made from selling the recycled material will be used to expand our operations further afield, creating employment and diverting waste back into society as a usable material.
Operating as a non profit, all funds will go back into our operations. But, we need your help. The setup costs for a basic recycling operation run into six figures, but if we all chip in a little spare change we can make a real difference.

Hello, my name is Khalid Khames. As a Director for a leading construction company in Scotland, UK, I have been involved in our waste operations for a long time (view my LinkedIn). In fact, I spent a few solid months trying to reduce our costs to no avail. Aside from separating our timber waste there was no other feasible way of reducing our waste disposal costs.

Upon further investigating I found out that a lot of our waste plastic is discarded to landfill, much to my annoyance, as there was no perceived value. I then read that it is estimated there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050 and that 83% of drinking water samples taken from around the globe contained plastic particles.

Khalid Khames with daughter Piper

I knew I had to do something, if not for me then for my daughter and our future generations. So, in my own time I spent countless hours investigating the scale of the problem and potential solutions, speaking with multiple extrusion companies but unfortunately getting no further. Finally I took it upon myself to collect waste plastic from my own waste disposal and trialled fusing it together by various means.

Eventually I found a solution that worked, and unWANTEDplastics.com was created. I don’t want to leave this World in a worse state than I found it and certainly don’t want to burden my daughter with a problem I could have solved.

As we're based in Central Scotland, UK, we're going to base our operations here. This will allow us to target the market we already know so much about, iron out any issues and expand quicker than setting up elsewhere.

Remember it doesn't matter where we are based, by removing plastic from our environment it benefits us all regardless of location.

Operating as a non-profit it is our intention to open up further recycling stations with the income generated

As we’ll be operating as a non-profit all revenue will go back into our operation. We’d like to expand this simple but effective solution on a global scale, but that’ll take time which we understand. Our aim is to divert all plastic waste AWAY from landfill or the ocean whilst CREATING employment.
Remember it doesn’t matter where our operation is, by recycling waste anywhere we’re potentially diverting it from the same ocean we ALL use whilst creating employment at the same time!

Our trials have indicated that, when the correct temperature is reached, we can fuse multiple plastics together. On occasion there have been some anomalies, for example plastic with a foil backing, which we would remove using a magnetic separator.

Undoubtedly there will be some plastics that we have difficulty with and we will attempt to adjust our methods to incorporate them into our recycling system.

Our trials have indicated that we can fuse multiple plastics together, however many extrusion companies state their extruders could not handle this process as the plastics would stick to the inside of the extrusion screw, causing it to fail. As a result we have dedicated a large portion of our total crowd funding goal to an extruder as we may need to build our own.